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Information providing apparatus and system

  • US 20120054054A1
  • Filed: 08/24/2011
  • Published: 03/01/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information providing apparatus for providing facility-event information, which is information of facilities or events, the information providing apparatus comprising:

  • an information storage that stores the facility-event information of facilities or events while associating the facility-event information of the facilities or events with respective location data of the facilities or events;

    a present position acquisition unit that acquires present position information indicating present position of the information providing apparatus;

    a search scope setting unit that sets a search scope parameterized by the location data, based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit;

    an information extraction unit that extracts, from the information storage, the facility-event information that matches the search scope set by the search scope setting unit;

    an information indicating unit that provides at least some of the facility-event information extracted by the information extraction unit, to a user of the information providing apparatus; and

    a stay place setting unit thatmeasures, based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit, a movement stop time defined as a period of time from when movement of the information providing apparatus stops to when the movement of the information providing apparatus restarts, andsets each place, at which the measured movement stop time exceeds a prescribed staying time, as a stay place,wherein;

    the search scope setting unitestimates that a living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user based on respective location data corresponding to the stay places set by the stay place setting unit, andsets the collective area as the search scope.

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